15.6K members. The best post we have captured here reached 2.8K upvotes, which works out to 181 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.
Neanderthals passed on a gene that helps modern humans pack on more muscle — but only a few people have it | Neanderthals passed along a gene variant…
In 1991, a single subatomic particle struck Earth carrying the kinetic energy of a fast-bowled cricket ball — tens of millions of times more than any…
The plot to kill Americans: Kennedy escalates attacks on vaccines | The Trump administration’s assault on vaccines and public health infrastructure r…
Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak | The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious …
Pregnant women's brains shed grey matter to prime them for motherhood, study suggests | "Baby brain" is a cliche long-used to describe women becoming…
‘The purpose of the rule is fascism’: scientists fight back against planned Trump research cuts
Scientists Discover New Forms of Life Inside Human Bodies That Don’t Match Anything Biology Has Classified | Scientists have uncovered a hidden class…
"Whatever truly happened behind the scenes to put in motion all this chaos — it does appear to be another example of another federal agency willfully…
Voyager 1 is still transmitting from beyond the heliosphere on 22 watts — less power than the bulb in your hallway — and the engineers who built it i…
A satellite caught a tsunami live—and what it recorded shocked scientists | The feat, made possible by a satellite that wasn’t even designed for this…
Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.
ViralHunt tracks Reddit and eight other networks, records how every post grows, and puts what is taking off in front of your team in one list.
Start free →Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/science2, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.